I’ve always believed that the easiest way to tell your story is through the things that you love. For me, that usually means through song and dance. But sometimes, it’s through style – Disney Style to be exact.
Disney Style in a women’s Barong Tagalog
One of my favorite Disney movies of all time turns 70 today! Can you believe it? SEVENTY. Seven decades of music, and hope, and magic.
To commemorate this momentous occasion, I’ve decided to gather seven looks I’ve done the past couple of years – a review of bounds, styles, and cosplays I’ve created to celebrate the most iconic Princess of all time – Cinderella.
In case you didn’t know, Ella also happens to be one of my favorite Princesses. I’ve actually done a few blogs about her already (I’ll link them below), talking about how much her quiet strength and unwavering kindness have helped make me into the person I am today. She’s inspired me in so many ways, and has been a steady guiding light throughout my life.
Best day ever!
If you’re just tuning in now, I created a blog series called #DisneyPrinsesa where I reimagine my favorite Princesses into versions of them that are a little closer to home – as Filipinas. Last year I did Disney Princess inspired looks for Philippine Independence Day. This year for my birthday, I worked with their actual costumes.
I’ve already featured two Princesses in my previous blog posts – Belle and Cinderella. (I suggest reading those first before coming back to this one for the full story)
But for the final installment of this series, I saved my favorite look for last – Continue reading
Part II of my #DisneyPrinsesa series is here!
As part of my birthday month celebration, I took my original idea last year of making Princess inspired looks out of Philippine fabrics and design elements, and decided to up my game a bit by making Filipina versions of their actual live action costumes instead.
I picked out my 3 favorite Princesses for this, and started off with my childhood heroine Belle (which you can read here).
Next up on this blog series is –
What would a Filipina Disney Princess look like?
On Philippine Independence Day last year, I wrote a blog about finding inspiration and hope in the Disney Princesses despite never quite finding one that looked like me growing up. Though the qualities and morals of each Princess have helped shaped me into the person I am today, and though I strongly believe that we are all the same where it matters, I wanted to bring my love for Disney and my love for my country together.
So I decided to start #DisneyPrinsesa – a campaign to promote Philippine culture by showcasing local textiles and design elements through what I know best – Disney Style.
Weeks were spent planning, sketching, gathering materials, and sewing eight different ensembles (and even Mickey ears) to come up with the Disney Prinsesa lookbook I would have loved to see as a young girl. And finally being able to see it all come together was definitely a dream come true for my Filipina heart.
But as a little birthday celebration this year, I wanted to take #Prinsesa one step further. Instead of Princess inspired looks, I wanted to work with the actual costumes of my favorite Princesses, and come up with Filipina versions of each of them.
So before my birthday month ends, I am sharing 3 blogs – one for each of the Princesses who have most influenced my childhood, and guided me in adulthood.
And I am starting this series off with –
I know I’ve been all about Mickey Style on this blog. And I (like the rest of the world) probably don’t celebrate this gal as much as I should. But today is all about her – Minnie Mouse – the original style queen, and the one who made polkadots and bows cool. So I’m wearing both in all the styles and colors I can come up with to honor this icon on her special day – #RocktheDots!
“Remember, you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine”
– Minnie Mouse
My first Affordable Disney blog for the year is here!
And this one is pretty fun, since I’m doing this themed to my birthday – which was actually on the 4th, but it’s still my birthday month so this counts right? Right. Lol.
In case you haven’t read any of my Affordable Disney blogs before (I’ll link the previous ones at the end), this is a monthly series I do where I style 1 locally-sourced Disney piece 5 different ways. But this month, I thought I’d switch it up a bit with 1 regular item styled 5 different Disney ways.
It’s the end of another decade.
I cannot believe how quickly time has passed, and how much has happened this past year. I’ll save my recap for a different blog post, but for now, I’d like to share my last lookbook for 2019!
I’ve done so many of these for the past months that I can’t even keep track anymore. It’s been a busy time for the blog, and to be honest, out of all the monthly series I have done here – Disney Capsule Wardrobe, Affordable Disney, and Style to Bound to Cosplay – these Truly Magical Lookbooks are my favorite. So I thought it was only fitting to end the year with one.
Since I celebrate pretty much everything with Disney Style now, I figured I’d welcome 2020 the same way. With fun, dreams, and magic – which is exactly what I hope the next decade will bring.
Christmas is here!!! I can’t believe how quickly this day has come. I feel like I just put my decorations up even though that was actually way back in September. And I am honestly not ready to say goodbye to the lights and tinsel yet.
Dressing up for Christmas is one of the highlights of the season for me too, with all the red, green, plaid, and sparkle. It just makes me so happy picking out all the festive prints and styles, and doing all sorts of equally festive activities in them – even if it’s as simple as wearing an ugly Christmas sweater with some cozy PJs to binge-watch sappy Holiday movies. So before I say goodbye to my favorite time of the year, I put together a little Disney Holiday lookbook of outfits I’ve been wearing through the season, using some of my Christmas staple pieces.
Now, I know this will be a lot less than the number of looks I’ve done for my Disney Capsule Wardrobe blogs in the past (which I’ll link down below). But this past month has been so overwhelming, this is really all I had time to do.
So instead of creating 20 outfits from 10 pieces, I will instead show 6 pieces that I styled in 12 different ways – two Holiday outfits per piece.
TODAY’S THE DAY! I’ve got my movie passes, my lightsaber, my Disneybounds, snacks, tissues. I think I’ve got everyhing ready. I don’t think I’ve forgotten anything, have I? Oh, I know. My heart. My heart is the only thing that is not prepared for this. Ahh. I. am. freaking. out.
Okay before I go full on Kylo out of excitement and start randomly hitting things with my lightsaber, let’s break this down into manageable steps shall we? Lol. Staying calm. I am one with the Force and the Force is with me.
The Rise of Skywalker is here, and you guys know what that means where I’m concerned – a #trulymagicallookbook dedicated to the movie. Or movies, I should say.
Star Wars has so much lore under its belt now – what with 3 trilogies, 2 spinoffs, TV series, games, Disney+, and now even a whole theme park, that it was so hard to narrow down the looks I wanted to do for this. But in the end I decided to keep it simple and whittle it down to five: Jedi, Sith, Rebel Pilot, Droid, and Trooper.
So without further ado, to a galaxy far, far away we go.
Katsie Llave 